tuning lower notes

[Don]

Hi Julia,

I suspect your hearing is becoming more "focused" (Hurrah!)

Can you tell us a bit more? Are you tuning a 6:3 octave? 8:4? Or are you
attempting to tune the "whole sound"?

At 06:05 PM 11/10/2004 EDT, you wrote:
>I find that tuning lower notes on some pianos (the wire wound ones) I dont
always 
>get clean octaves. There seems to be, and this is only on some pianos,
these extra 
>fast beats.  I try to block out the faster beating frequency(ies) and tune
using 
>the (the octave's) fundemental, and even when I get that low fundemental
"in" 
>there's this annoying faster beating. I am tuning the bass mostly by ear!
Am I 
>doing something wrong, or is it just cheap wire wound strings? What is
causing 
>this? 
>It seems to only happen on the cheaper spinets and consoles, occasionally an 
>upright or grand will have this problem too, but not as often.

>Julia

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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